Sentences with phrase «by graduate student researcher»

A research team led by graduate student researcher Shannon Hagerty and Paul Dijkstra, biological sciences associate research professor, measured two key characteristics of soil microbes that determine their role in the soil carbon cycle: how efficiently they use carbon to grow and how long they live.

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Presentations were delivered by a number of faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

Graduate student Aaron Stevens, research assistant Wes Edrington, undergraduate researcher Yunhua Zhao and graduate student Aroshan Jayansinge also contributed to the research, which was funded by National Institute of Health grants R21AR068933 and 5T32CA119925 and National Science Foundation grant REU Graduate student Aaron Stevens, research assistant Wes Edrington, undergraduate researcher Yunhua Zhao and graduate student Aroshan Jayansinge also contributed to the research, which was funded by National Institute of Health grants R21AR068933 and 5T32CA119925 and National Science Foundation grant REU graduate student Aroshan Jayansinge also contributed to the research, which was funded by National Institute of Health grants R21AR068933 and 5T32CA119925 and National Science Foundation grant REU 1560035.

Researchers sequenced nuclear DNA from three molars from layer 11 and a child's molar from a deeper layer, 22, according to a talk by graduate student Viviane Slon, who works in the lab of paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

A contest will recognize ongoing or prospective public science engagement by affiliated graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty working in or beyond the university community, with four $ 1000 awards per institution.

A contest to recognize ongoing or prospective science engagement activities in the university's community by affiliated graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and / or faculty, with four awards of $ 1000 each;

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

In the 1960s, as a graduate - student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he discovered that dogs zapped with an electric shock and allowed to escape by jumping over a low barrier quickly learned to do so, but most shocked dogs given no escape option eventually gave up, even when a way to flee was introduced later.

Engler's team, which includes bioengineering graduate student researchers Ludovic Vincent and Jessica Wen, found that the stem cell differentiation is a response to the mechanical deformation of the hydrogel from the force exerted by the cell.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

The reasons why UTIs recur is not fully understood, but the researchers, including obstetrics and gynecology instructor Nicole Gilbert, PhD, and graduate student Valerie O'Brien, saw a clue in bacterial vaginosis, which is caused by an overgrowth of harmful bacteria, resulting in vaginal odor and discharge.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build deformable surgical robots.

The foundation boosted its funding by more than 20 % this year, handing out a further six awards to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.

Led by graduate student Sandra Rincon and her advisor, Haluk Beyenal, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors.

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

The researchers experimented with iridium oxide samples synthesized by Boston College (BC) graduate student Tom Hogan, working in the lab of former BC and current University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor Stephen Wilson.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

The research was led by TAU postgraduate student Dr. Elena Milanesi under the guidance of Dr. David Gurwitz of the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience and Dr. Noam Shomron of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Sackler graduate student Adva Hadar and Prof. Haim Werner of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, along with researchers in Italy and Germany.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

The researchers» antagonist molecule — synthesized by co-author Aishan Zhao, a graduate student in chemistry — diffused in the crevices and inactivated quorum sensing, which suggested that it could be used as a potential strategy for alleviating MRSA virulence.

The article, «Superhalogens as Building Blocks of Halogen - free Electrolytes in Li - ion Batteries,» by Jena, postdoctoral researcher Santanab Giri, Ph.D., and then - graduate student Swayamprabha Behera, Ph.D., will appear in a forthcoming issue of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, which has posted the study online.

He had been exploring the impact of HIV / AIDS in New York City, but the storm inspired him to lead a caravan of about 30 researchers, graduate students, and health workers to visit temporary housing sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Led by graduate student Ross Mitchell, the researchers first looked back beyond Pangaea and determined the location of supercontinents Rodinia, which formed about a billion years earlier, and Nuna, 700 million years before that.

In the current study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

The surveys analyzed by the researchers tracked students as they graduated from high school and entered college, following up with them 3 and 10 years after they had left college.

A survey by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents» Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5 - HT) and arginine - vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance.

An international team of researchers led by Ji - an Jiang, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and including researchers from the University of Tokyo, the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), Kyoto University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), tried to solve this problem.

The fabrication process that the Brown and NREL researchers reported in this latest paper builds on a previously reported method developed by Yuanyuan Zhou, a graduate student in Padture's lab.

Now a team of researchers led by Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor computer science and engineering at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)-- and including graduate student Song Li, also of Lehigh University and Erik Wijmans of Washington University in St. Lous — has developed the first cross-browser fingerprinting technique to use machine - level features to identify users.

«Experiencing conflict or making an error is something that normally gets us worked up, perhaps by activating our fight - or - flight response, which can interfere with our ability to focus on a task,» said first author R. Becket Ebitz, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who conducted this study as a graduate student at Duke.

Led by first author Teniel Ramikie, a graduate student in Patel's lab, the researchers also showed for the first time how nerve cells in this part of the brain make and release their own natural «endocannabinoids.»

A team of researchers led by Tim Goudge, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown, looked at 51 pyroclastic sites distributed across Mercury's surface.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

The research was led by postdoctoral researcher Qunyang Li, graduate student Xin - Zhou Liu and Robert Carpick, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The researchers, led by Rice physicist Junichiro Kono and graduate student Xinwei Li, observed and measured what's known as a Bloch - Siegert shift in strongly coupled light and matter.

The materials used for this study were produced at UCLA by a team led by postdoctoral researcher Qing Lin He and graduate student Lei Pan.

The conference presents a great opportunity for presentations by Canadian researchers and there will student awards to encourage participation by graduate students.

In addition, postdoctoral and graduate and undergraduate student researchers may be supported as participants in collaborative research projects, joint workshops, and other activities supported by NSF.

Researchers Todd Ahern, a graduate student in the Emory Neuroscience Program, and Larry Young, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory School of Medicine, compared pups raised by single mothers (SM) to pups raised by both parents (BP) to determine the effects of these types of early social environments on adult social behavior.

He is a fellow of the American Crystallographic Association and the Mineralogical Society of American, and a scientific director of the National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering, an educational program for graduate student researchers run by ORNL and Argonne National Laboratory.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at W. M. Keck Observatory and their results will help to build the foundations of galaxy evolution studies by predicting the star - formation rate of distant galaxies from the light they emit.

Princeton Research Day, held May 5, was a celebration of the research and creative endeavors by undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.

The researchers, led by Jingjun Li, a graduate student in neurobiology in the UNC School of Medicine, concluded that neurexin is required for the growth of synapses, for the maintenance of their structure and for their function.

Researchers included students with post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate status, and even some assistance by a local high school junior.

Funding has been obtained from NSF to support a stable cohort of such students whose duties involve the training of a new generation of graduate researchers to work in the museum; the presentation of information on ongoing research to museum educators and interested parents; the tracking of participation by children and families in such research initiatives.